Talk:1590: The Source

As soon as I finished this comic, I started to hear it. Please, make it stop. It's not on the basement, nor the attic. It's getting louder. Driving me crazy. Please. Maybe this gun would help me to shut the noise down. Now, where should I aim it?

Very dark humour there from anonymous... I guess it will be to late to help him now. But if he misses he will have even more ringing noises in his ears than after reading this comic. ;-) --Kynde (talk) 12:13, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Just shoot wherever. If you're lucky, you'll be partly deaf and not hear the hum anymore. --141.101.104.146 13:49, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

No, hearing damage (for instance as a result of loud noise) is what very often causes tinnitus. Jkrstrt (talk) 14:44, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

The background noise created by appliances like refrigerators and washing machines is typically generated by their electric motors/pumps which operate at 60 Hz; a frequency I would not consider "high pitched". The only devices I can think of off the top of my head that generate what I would consider high-pitched noise are TVs (both CRT and flat-screen). Smperron (talk) 13:13, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

It's 50Hz over here in Germany

I can think of only one potentially high pitched hum generator that would look something like that, and I didn't know Cueball lived with a lesbian who uses a symbian. Let alone such a person leaving their rather high wattage sex toy plugged in. Seebert (talk) 13:55, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

I suspect the title text may be a reference to “why do we even ‘'have’’ that lever?” from The Emperor’s New Groove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sw2B9knw58U ZevEisenberg (talk) 14:00, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

I agree, and made my account to make that observation. (Panther)

I suspect the title text to be the most common wording for this kind of question, so it could not be a reference to whatever in any way. 141.101.66.23 14:33, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

That was my first thought too. My second was "I guess they're going to find out." See Chesterton's fence. Wwoods (talk) 14:58, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

I had once thought about why do I sometimes hear high pitched noise. We have all kinds of tiny random noises all around us. Hums, pulses, bugs, elecs,etc. Human ear canal is a few centimeters long. And it has resonant frequency around 2000~3000Hz and its odd multiples. So, my conclusion was, of all the tiny noises the 2000(or 3000)Hz and its third(6000 or 9000Hz) and fifth harmonic(10000 or 15000Hz) frequencies,or even higher harmonics would get amplified by resonance. Pls correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks. Parsec (talk) 15:30, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

Phillip Glass: Changing Opinions "Gradually....we became aware...of a hum in the room.... an electrically hum....in the room.It went mmmmmmm mmmmmm mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UC01ZVEXCBY

Gradually We became aware Of a hum in the room An electrical hum in the room It went mmmmmm

We followed it from Corner to corner We pressed out ears Against the walls We crossed diagonals And put our hands on the floor It went mmmmmm

Sometimes it was A murmur Sometimes it was A pulse Sometimes it seemed To disappear But then with a quarter-turn Of the head It would roll around the sofa A nimbus humming cloud Mmmmmm

Maybe it's the hum Of a calm refrigerator Cooling on the big night Mmmmmm Cooling on the big night Maybe it's the hum Of our parents' voices Long ago in a soft light Mmmmmm Long ago in a dimmed light Mmmmmm

Maybe it's the hum Of changing opinion Or a foreign language In prayer Mmmmmm Or a foreign language In prayer Maybe it's the mantra Of the walls and wiring Deep breathing In soft air Mmmmmm Deep breathing In soft air Mmmmmm